When comparing Kafka vs Stackify, the Slant community recommends Kafka for most people. In the question“What are the best log aggregation & monitoring tools?”Kafka is ranked 11th while Stackify is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Kafka is:

Pros

Pro

Optimized for performance

Pro

Native mirroring support

Kafka has native support for mirroring.

Pro

Native compression support

Kafka has native support for compression.

Pro

Easy to install, value out-of-the-box, easy to use

We are using Stackify to monitor everything related to the app including the app performance, server performance, DB, webpages, custom metrics and then when an issue happen, it is great to have the errors and logs all connected together. Way better than any of the log only or error only tools

Cons

Con

Need Zookeeper

Kafka can only work with Zookeeper

Con

No Free Plan

There is no free plan.

Con

Minimal

Loggly cannot scale into a full blown infrastructure for analytics. This is simply a tools for parsing log data coming from your apps.